Donald Trump’s transition team released a statement Friday confirming that the President-elect nominated Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn as national security advisor, Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS) as director of the CIA, and Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) as attorney general.
Read the statement below:
(New York, NY) – President-elect Donald J. Trump today announced that he intends to nominate U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions to serve as Attorney General and U.S. Rep. Mike Pompeo as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn has been selected to be the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.
U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions has dedicated his life to public service. He has a distinguished legal career and has served as both the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama and Alabama Attorney General prior to his service in the U.S. Senate. He has been one of President-elect Trump’s trusted advisors on the campaign and will now continue his service as our nation’s chief law enforcement officer.
“It is an honor to nominate U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions to serve as Attorney General of the United States,” said President-elect Trump. “Jeff has been a highly respected member of the U.S. Senate for 20 years. He is a world-class legal mind and considered a truly great Attorney General and U.S. Attorney in the state of Alabama. Jeff is greatly admired by legal scholars and virtually everyone who knows him.”
“I am humbled to have been asked by President-elect Trump to serve as Attorney General of the United States,” said U.S. Senator Sessions. “My previous 15 years working in the Department of Justice were extraordinarily fulfilling. I love the Department, its people and its mission. I can think of no greater honor than to lead them. With the support of my Senate colleagues, I will give all my strength to advance the Department’s highest ideals. I enthusiastically embrace President-elect Trump’s vision for ‘one America,’ and his commitment to equal justice under law. I look forward to fulfilling my duties with an unwavering dedication to fairness and impartiality.”
Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, a retired United States Army Lieutenant General and former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, assumes the position of National Security Advisor with a decorated career of more than 35 years in service to our nation. He served as President-elect Trump’s top military advisor during the campaign and will now continue providing expert advice and support to the President-elect as his National Security Advisor.
“I am pleased that Lieutenant General Michael Flynn will be by my side as we work to defeat radical Islamic terrorism, navigate geopolitical challenges and keep Americans safe at home and abroad,” said President-elect Trump. “General Flynn is one of the country’s foremost experts on military and intelligence matters and he will be an invaluable asset to me and my administration.”
“I am deeply humbled and honored to accept the position as National Security Advisor to serve both our country and our nation’s next President, Donald J. Trump,” said Lieutenant General Flynn.
Congressman Mike Pompeo, representing Kansas’ Fourth Congressional District, is a former active duty cavalry officer in the U.S. Army, graduated first in his class from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, received his J.D. from Harvard Law School and was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. He currently serves on the House Intelligence Committee, which oversees America’s intelligence-gathering efforts.
“I am proud to nominate Congressman Mike Pompeo as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency,” said President-elect Trump. “He has served our country with honor and spent his life fighting for the security of our citizens. Mike graduated number one in his class at West Point and is a graduate of Harvard Law School where he served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review. He will be a brilliant and unrelenting leader for our intelligence community to ensure the safety of Americans and our allies.”
“I am honored to have been given this opportunity to serve and to work alongside President-elect Donald J. Trump to keep America safe. I also look forward to working with America’s intelligence warriors, who do so much to protect Americans each and every day,” said Congressman Pompeo.
Unless you’re a member of the LGBTQ community, a racial minority or Muslim.
Can I repeat this yet again? There is no such thing as “work with” a neo-Nazi fascist administration. I just can’t repeat this enough. There is just no such thing. Democrats who keep uttering this willing-to-work-with-HO bullshit should seriously wake up.
I’m going to go on record now predicting that this is all…all of it…going to cause riots. They like to fancy themselves the silent majority, but they are clearly neither. We are about to witness the waking of a sleeping dragon.
OK, fine…that’s going to be an unpopular opinion, but I’m convinced at this point and I don’t like it any more than you do. There’s only so much shit the communities Trump and the rest of them are targeting for debasement and destruction can take before they snap. A return to a government openly, unabashedly and demonstrably operating to establish and maintain white supremacy isn’t going to fly. It’s like they’re deliberately seeking that reaction so they can establish martial law in the inner cities and if it comes to that, what effect does it have on the integrity of our national guard and military when its minority members refuse commands to further the destruction of their fellow minorities and themselves? The streets are going to run with blood, mark my words.
I’m guessing the equal justice nod was merely code for their new favorite doublethink about “religious freedom” meaning they should be allowed to discriminate.
…and we’re off. A ‘new’ America. Yeah.